. >> transportation secretary polly trachtenberg talks about the bipartisan infrastructure law. president biden's budget request and public transit projects. the conversation tookplace at the american public transportation association conference . >> i'd like to introduce another good friend of mine who worked together in the obama administration. i have a tremendous amount of respect for her. and that person is polly trachtenberg, currently secretary at the department of transportation. she's the number two official and she for supports secretary buddha judge. for dot. she has an extensive 25 years of experience in all sectors and served in 2015 to 2020 as commissioner and ran a complex 300 person embassy and equitable operations transportation network which includes 6000 miles of roadway, the nations largest traffic operation, the staten island ferry, extensive public infrastructure and initiatives in her smart transportation technology space and by the way, she also served on mtas board. in her spare time. as indicated she not only served in the obama administration as unders

soviet union, whose works are well-known shchusev mordvin collie semyonov rubanenko, langbard, trachtenbergchitect was accepted in engineers took part in this, because we are talking not only about architectural artistic solutions, but also about the transport network and about the economic justification, because everything was accepted and everything was designed on the master plan and there are many options for architectural solutions in the project itself, but especially a lot of disputes about how to be the main avenue of the capital among the proposals. it would seem that incompatible things are classics and soviet symbols, wonderful masters. patriotic neoclassical school in many ways brought up the context of such a renaissance visions of the academician of architecture ivan vladislavovich zhukovsky at the main stage of creating the prospectus, his main architect, or as it was then called the main architect, was a professor. mikhail poroshnikov, the construction of the avenue is under special control of the country's leadership. it should embody in the appearance of buildings the best

the main discussion unfolded between the architects trachtenberg and asmolovsky projects presented bysailing levinson and fomin king and osmolovsky from the projects of ilon, bardo and sailing ship and other authors. we see that not everyone had a theater that we now we call it yanka kupala, the city theater ulan-bank, by the way, it was preserved, but what was interesting about his project, which was not accepted by the fact that it would completely unexpectedly turn our thinking towards the opera house. it was not possible to approve the final project of october square and the issue was postponed until better times. everything was very controversial and ambiguous. at the same time, the square was decorated with the palace of trade unions, which embodied in its facade the classic trends of the palace style stumps on the ceiling in front of the entrance to the building an arched pediment with a sculptural group glory to labor other elements of the dispute and around the draft it was decided a competitive project will be proposed by the architect baklanov based on the principles of the